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00:00You were actually taking a night off from watching Abbott at home with the audience.

00:05Instead, we are being honored this evening for really the way that you've used your career

00:10to give back to others in so many ways.

00:13What does it mean to kind of have lived not only a purpose-driven life, but also a purpose-driven

00:19career?

00:20You know, that's very interesting because my career is absolutely on purpose.

00:25The roles that I have chosen, the roles that have chosen me, have been on purpose.

00:30Because I know there will be a generation and people that will come after me, and I

00:34want them to know that they can participate in their career.

00:38They can participate in the legacy that they leave behind.

00:43They don't have to take what's offered just because, but plan your career to leave something

00:49good for others to look at.

00:51Yeah.

00:52Well, I'm curious, as you kind of look at the legacy of your career, how would you define

00:57it?

00:58I don't know if I would define it.

01:00I don't know.

01:01Well, you're still building it, is part of the answer with that.

01:03I mean, you still have so many more projects you have in the works.

01:07Not only Abbott, but also there's an upcoming film, Ricky, as well.

01:12I'm very proud of Ricky.

01:15You know, first of all, I love doing films and projects that are important, especially

01:23Ricky deals with recidivism.

01:25Ricky deals with immigration.

01:27Ricky deals with so much love, family, dysfunction, and the fact that there is one person who

01:34believes in this young man enough to say, I believe you because I see you.

01:41I understand.

01:42Oh, I'm very proud.

01:45And it's a complete departure.

01:47You know, I was, when working on the film, one of the people on the film, their child

01:52wanted to come and meet me from Abbott.

01:56And when they met me, I was in costume and they said, she's different.

02:02And I was like, yes, yes, that's what you want.

02:05A complete departure.

02:06I mean, that is the dream.

02:08You want to continue to make work where you can explore different sides of yourself.

02:14That doesn't always happen.

02:16People want to put you in a box.

02:17They want to say, oh, no, this is what she does.

02:19Oh, no, no.

02:20This is the character that she should play.

02:22And for this director to come out and say, no, this is what she can.

02:27I was like, yes.

02:30I actually am curious, looking back, at what point in your career did you recognize that

02:36making content that was, you know, values driven or faith and spirituality driven was

02:43something that Hollywood was going to allow you to do?

02:47Because for a while it seemed like, you know, that maybe isn't always what they're looking

02:51for, if that makes sense.

02:52I choose me.

02:54I choose what I do.

02:56I know what is going to work for me.

02:59Like I said, I know the legacy that is important for me to leave.

03:04I want my children's children's children when they speak my name, when they look me up,

03:10when they look at the work, the things that I said, the films, the television, the speeches,

03:17I want them to say, I'm related to her, Cheryl Lee Rouse.

03:23Do and are and always will say that.

03:26Your children already are carrying on that legacy so beautifully.

03:30My son's got his first film, no, his second film coming out, but his first bigger film,

03:35a Christmas film.

03:37A whole film festival, yes.

03:40So I'm very proud of them and they want to do it on their own, which I'm always like,

03:45I can help.

03:46And they're like, no, mom, we got this.

03:48And I'm like, okay.

03:49Well, I have to ask you, I guess one last bit of Abbott news, because you guys have

03:54the holiday special today, tonight, the two parter, but then you're also going to head

03:59over to that always sunny cast.

04:02So what was it like going to the bar with them?

04:06First of all, it was dirty.

04:09Second of all, I had no idea they were criminals.

04:11Okay, no, I hadn't watched the show.

04:15Nobody told me.

04:17And then when I was reading, I was like, wait a minute, what's going on here?

04:21How do these words collide, worlds collide?

04:24And literally they do collide in a way that's going to make some really wonderful TV.

04:29Was it any seafaring, Barbara?

04:31Are we getting the Barbara, a little tipsy too?

04:36She hasn't been drinking very much this season.

04:39No, she has not.

04:41But a young actor said something to me that really got me.

04:45He said, Miss Ralph, you taught me something about acting.

04:48And I was like, okay, what was it?

04:51They said, you don't always have to have a whole lot of lines to act.

04:57And I was like, you saw that?

05:00And he was like, yeah, I saw that.

05:02He said, sometimes you're saying nothing and I can see everything that you're saying.

05:08And I was like, oh my God, thank you so much.

05:11So what do they say?

05:12People do listen.

05:14People do watch.

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